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1 minute ago, Btay said:

Not from what I’ve been watching. None of them have been great but his passing has been woeful & just is not interested in going forward with the ball. Also, he can’t get close enough to any of their players to knick the ball.

 

No doubt it’s Ashley Fucking Young who comes on first 

Wasn’t it Gana who layed the ball right across thier penalty area twice to Doucoure from throwing a to put us right at there door?

But then inevitably the ball was played straight back to Tarks. Drives me nuts. Garner to. Always sideways.

2 minutes ago, Sev said:

Surely not.

Most definitely. 
tackles in our box, moving the ball forward, passing the ball into thier penalty area. 
best player by far. 
 

Would love to challenge our fans to find the stats on our players passing. And have a friendly bet that Gana is top three at the very least. 

14 minutes ago, Btay said:

I know Dyche won’t do it but I would be bringing Onana on for Gana at halftime. Hasn’t been a good performance at all by him.

Surely Gana has been the best player on the pitch? 
Everything has gone through him. 
 

It’s Garner and Doucs that are hiding again. Take one of them off. 
Preferably Garner… terrible so far. Slowing everything we do down.

16 hours ago, Palfy said:

We do put crosses in usually 15-20 yards from the byline there harder to score from and easier to defend, we don’t seem to get to byline in games anymore where DCL can run in on to the ball. Why I don’t know  

Rom’s just answered it. 

I have been doing this in the kids training recently. 
Showing them how to run to the line and pull it back, the stay behind the ball and are now finding out how easy it is to meet a ball rather than have to step backwards to receive it. How pro footballers haven’t worked this out is beyond me. 

His Pickford impersonation wound me up. We worked out of defence fast and had momentum, the ball came to Onana and he completely killed it and sent it right back. A few players had a moan and he held his hands up and said calm down…. Becoming a proper scouse!

Young and Harrison are just not at this level. Harrison look a like Davies used to… runs a lot, works hard…. But absolutely no quality. 
Young has obviously a football brain on him, but his body just doesn’t seem to know how to link up with it. Past it and needs to look into coaching or deliveries.

Going to be wildly unpopular here, but I’m changing my mind and thinking let’s cash in.

I know he scored last night, but was it just me that thought he just slowed us down? He will only ever play a safe pass, never tries to thread it through. He is just so safe it slows our impetus down. If we could get 70 for him, I would snap there hands off.

And now we have Garner. I think Garner is going to be Gana’s replacement, or could be if we cashed in on Onana. 

6 hours ago, FairWooney said:

yet still you see people slating him which seems to always be the case.  I saw someone suggest he was our man of the match on Twitter and got a response that he was responsible for both goals and gave the ball away everywhere!

I think he's done much better under Dyche where he's getting to press higher up the field a bit further away from danger but also disrupting opposition play and creating opportunities to win the ball back nearer the opposition goal.

I thought he was very good apart from the usual moments when he gets a chance to shoot!  

 

It’s because people watch him waiting for him to lose possession. Once that happens they feel validated.

He is generally our most accurate passer of the ball, and the one that will link play between defence and attack. 
Another one of those that you miss more when he isn't there.

Gana for me.

Because he’s a favourite of mine and Palfy hates him.

Well deserved point there. We battled and worked hard, just lacked quality.

It felt like we matched them on the pitch all game.

Doms starting to look sharper as well. Looked more progressive today.

Was good to have Gana back, even if we have to put up with the odd shot. He make our middle look a lot stronger.

We just need to be a bit braver with the ball. But all in all a good performance.

Would have Richarlison back tomorrow. 

7 hours ago, Gwlad said:

How does this funding from 777 square in our books and for FFP purposes?

We don’t square our books, you know that.

50 minutes ago, Romey 1878 said:

Tbf, our board have taken us from being a well established PL side to a club who's whole existence is in jeopardy.

So yeah, it'll take more than fobbing Holgate off on someone to go any way to making them not look useless.

Mate if they manage to sell Keane to Luton, even you will have to give them a nod of approval. 
Maybe Beto to Forest and we’re saved!

And people say our board are useless!

This is brilliant business, genius almost.

Met Branch when he played for wolves. 
He came with a few others for a charity day at the local school.

He took my 15 year old cousins number.

Haha for fuck sake I needed that!

Still our biggest asset though. 
And these players aren’t kids, or shouldn’t be. If they can’t galvanise after a missed penalty… then they shouldn’t be in the professional game.

Onana can be so annoying to watch. He has moments when he strides forward and looks like a Vierra…. And then spends the rest of the game looking likes he’s scared to go forward. 
But he has more good moments than bad for me and we would be a weaker team without him.

1 hour ago, Romey 1878 said:

Neither do I, but the post I was replying to was about technique and that's what I responded about.

Did he like shite mean it, and you know it.

Still think there’s fine line between him and Beto’s technical ability. 
Niasse could at least put a simple pad together. 
Beto seems to have all the time on the world… panicks and hits a ten yard pass thirty yards to far.

Niasse would have kicked the ball up into his face and noses the ball to his team mate. That’s skill.

Watching the match yesterday he is right, the Vauxhall conference is better standard than what we played.

He makes Niasse look a technically accomplished player. 

That was terrible. 
Beto is rubbish guys, I would rather play Chemiti and let him learn. Or even Dobbin.

777 must have taken over already. 

That will do me. Now let’s get our own back on Luton.

Doesn’t sound like a thrilling match, but 1-0 up with a Gomes free kick will do for me.

Official site are saying it was a much harder chance and he did well. Very tight angle apparently.

Joel making a few good saves as well by the sounds of it.